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Sport Would this be ok
- Thread starter fattytumtums
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Sport Fitness
what books are you planning on getting?
Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance:
Advanced-Nutrition and Human-Metabolism-(WithInfoTrac)
Practical-Programming for Strength training
Starting Strength
Then possibly if i can find it cheap somewhere later on
the 9pound 2000+ page behemoth Modern-Nutrition in Health and Disease
I would not suggest these to someone who isn't already fairly knowledgeable in these subjects. As most are expensive and technical. IOW, Not for beginners...
I'm reading these then others to further prepare for college/career.
I'm jealous of your youth Silent. You are doing an admirable job of bettering yourself and gaining as much knowledge as possible. You already know that you want to pursue this in college too, which is great. I got into fitness seriously only about 7 months ago, and the impact is has had on my life is absolutely amazing. I fell in love with lifting, nutrition, and just fitness in general, I think about it all the time. Unfortunately, I pursued a totally different career in Business, which is OK, but the more I learn it and work in it, the more I dislike the immobility of it. Ahh well, sorry for the depressing rant.
A small scoop on alcohol: its a depressant, it removes water from the body (hence casues most people (not all, but most) people to drink gallons of water after a night out drinking, hence dehydration, and thus headaches), it taxes the liver (its the responsible organ that removes the toxity of alcohol from the blood), it is immediately absorbed throught the stomach wall, alcohol dehydrates muscle tissue which means less nutrients in the tissue, and the list goes on.....no alcohol in moderation is okay,,,,but to the point it intoxicates the body,,,,,,,everything you put in the body has a accumulative effect on the body in some way, and alcohol is detrimental (when over doing it),,,,,,,,,period in my opinion. A person over doing drinking with having fitness goals in mind have a decision to make: do I want the alcohol more or do I want to reach my goals more.......which is it.......? bottom line.
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I'm jealous of your youth Silent.
Dude, we still are the youth (I'm 21)! You don't have to do anything right now that you don't want to! Your life isn't written in stone and it might take you places that you didn't expect. Don't EVER do something because you think that's the way it has to be.
Sometimes I think about "What if I did this" or "What if I did that" and I realize that if I did something a different way I probably wouldn't know myself so well. If I buckled down right away and went to college instead of riding horses, traveling and having adventures I wouldn't know what things really made me happy. Do you have any idea how many people go through life without knowing what makes them happy? They immediately jumped onto a path because they decide they have "a plan" and now they are stuck in it for the rest of their lives. If you don't like where your life is heading with your degree then maybe it's time you change the road you're on.
~Nicole